Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special tribute to Broadway Producer Harold Prince, Ed will feature numbers from the hit shows Fiddler on the Roof and Cabaret...
Raising the Roof. Damning the situation as "unfair and in many cases outrageous," Mayor John Lindsay has demanded a rollback of the "exorbitant" rent increases and a freeze on further boosts until March 1. By then, he warns, the city's landlords had better produce a formula for self-regulation against gouging or they will face legislated controls. The owners are expected to come through with some sort of plan-and for good reason. With an election due in the autumn, Democrats on the city council are threatening the landlords with a number of politically popular bills, including...
...landlords have lately raised the roof on rents in part to make up for lost time and money. Six years ago, in a scramble to beat a zoning-law deadline, they built an excess of apartments and filled them by offering rents that were fairly reasonable by Manhattan standards, as well as three-or four-month rental "concessions." Now there is a desperate housing shortage. While the rental vacancy rate for the nation is 5.4%, it is 1.2% for New York City. The landlords, hardly a charitable lot, can get together fairly easily and exploit the shortage because 250 real...
Occasionally, productions with mixed or bad out-of-town reactions are transformed into big hits during the tryout period. Jerome Robbins (director-choreographer of West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof) was called in to doctor A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Funny Girl. Both times he achieved the miracle. Any Wednesday had a disastrous tryout, with many different directors and a leading man who walked out shortly before the New York opening. It ran two years on Broadway...
...shows' destinies are changed on the road, why do the producers bother with the expense and frustration at all? Harold Prince, Zorba's producer-director, finds the out-of-town critics helpful in suggesting changes that might make a good show better. (His Fiddler on the Roof and West Side Story were perhaps perfected on the road, but his flops, such as Flora, the Red Menace, benefited little from the out-of-town experience...